Example sentences of "[noun sg] it " in BNC.

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1 If this is simply a directional gyro it must be synchronised with the magnetic compass at frequent intervals .
2 If Candida gets into a woman 's urinary tract or bladder it can produce a form of cystitis — characterized by a burning sensation when passing urine .
3 Well we , come on come on now , bladder it in .
4 And the young woman let her tie the grizzling baby into the bath-chair and wheel it around the courtyard to look at the hens .
5 I 'll wheel it along to the cottage and keep it dry for you , and you can call for it tomorrow .
6 ‘ Run along home then and tell your Dad to come and wheel it away .
7 She begged Charlie to sell Granpa 's old barrow to raise another pound , but Charlie 's reply was always the same — ‘ Never ’ — before adding that he would rather starve and leave the relic to rot in the back yard than let another hand wheel it away .
8 Yeah but if the key 's not in there and you turn the wheel it locks in straight away anyway !
9 hit the head and , and my front wheel it 's always the front bumper !
10 It does not describe reality nor is it sufficient in itself , but applied to religion it means that nothing is true .
11 While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity .
12 Before responding to this objection against religion it is important first to acknowledge the insights it brings — insights often neglected in earlier centuries .
13 There is little chance of the " professional " participator emerging with real understanding , for to find out the truth of religion it has to be wrestled with and lived , not just safely and probably patronizingly studied from a safe distance .
14 Criticism of the phenomenological approach to RE was given in Chapter 4 , particularly on the grounds that in practice it tends to lose touch with much of the religion it sets out to understand and include .
15 It is learning about religion it 's an educational process and it has an importance , whether it 's learning about religion and whether its learning it as a cultural , historical and a religious er tradition of the country and that is what is important .
16 If you do just one thing in isolation it probably will not have the desired effect because people gain a general , overall impression from a combination of :
17 But when the church breaks through this isolation it has created a potential for growth .
18 So sort of isolation it was
19 But if an application is made to patent a computer-controlled furnace it may well succeed and be granted a patent .
20 You know that if the score 's above the mean do n't worry , I 've got an overhead for this , that 's if the score 's above the mean then i you know relatively speaking to the mean it 's high right ?
21 Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting .
22 In other words as long as the dose is in liquid form , and can be regulated as to the optimum size and repetition , then no matter how many succussions are used to prepare the original remedy it will not be too much for the patient .
23 Having selected a remedy it must now be given , but first I would like to put in a little reassurance .
24 So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful .
25 Being an equitable remedy it is discretionary and the plaintiff must have " clean hands " and have acted promptly in enforcing his rights .
26 But since reorganization it 's become much more diverse and we 're expected to do a lot more different things . ’
27 erm , it never , with reorganization it was a bit of a problem because erm I well remembers too just after reorganization the County Treasurers took all the telephones off the hook , so there was no communication between our department and theirs .
28 The presupposition that for something about a stimulus to mediate localisation it must be something of which one is conscious , was abandoned .
29 Although identification of left or right hemisphere activity represents a fairly gross level of localisation it is sometimes possible to be more precise as to the area of brain that is active .
30 In the exile it was decreed that circumcision was to be the official rite of initiation into Judaism and all that that now meant .
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